The Common Good

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Health Care: Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers?

by Tracey Bianchi 03-29-2010
So my son came home from kindergarten on Friday all ravenous and hungry like he always is. No snacks in school so he is always a raving lunatic looking for a cookie after school.
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Christian Militias, Revelation, and Christ's Consistent Nonviolence

by Brian McLaren 03-29-2010
One of the most important subjects addressed in my recent book
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Passover for Non-Jews and 'the Bread of Affliction'

by Roi Ben-Yehuda 03-29-2010
In preparing a Passover seder in which many of my guests are first-timers and non-Jews, I am challenged by a number of factors: There is the barrier of language -- some of the texts that we read ar
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Lent on $2.50 a Day

by LaVonne Neff 03-29-2010
My friend Irene Groot decided to try the Lenten Experiment this year. "I recently sent off a couple of hundred dollars to a local soup kitchen," she e-mailed me this morning. "That's the money I saved taking up your challenge."
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Dorothy Day: Unapologetic Radical, but no Marxist

by Robert Ellsberg 03-29-2010
It was surprising to see Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker movement, described on the Glenn Beck show as a Marxist.
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A Million Christians for Social Justice: Are You In?

by Jim Wallis 03-26-2010
Yesterday, I shared our prayers and discussions about possibly launching A Million Christians for Social Justice
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This One's for Isaiah

by Jennifer Kottler 03-26-2010
I get asked often how I can stay in the crazy business of trying to change and shape public policy.
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Kudos and Good News Coverage on the Glenn Beck Social Justice Debate

by Ryan Rodrick Beiler 03-26-2010
Last week, Don Miller was SojoFriend #1 for his eloquent framing of the Glenn Beck de
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Faith Leaders on Immigration: Peaceful, Powerful, and Prophetic

by Allison Johnson 03-26-2010
More than 200,000 people descended on Washington, D.C., for the March for America last weekend.
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